You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it,… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
